List of hackathons about non-profit in 2016

High school students in and around Austin, Texas! Want to showcase your techie creativity and coding skills? Are you ready for the Design for Progress Challenge? Come and participate in the Coding4TX Hackathon @ Galvanize. You'll be challenged to design and build a cool product that aims to solve an important youth problem of your choice. Collaborate and compete for awesome prizes!

Want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in Miami, FL! Collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: » Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. » Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they; go to, are at, and come home from work. » Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. » Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace.

Coders, designers, techies in and around Lagos, Nigeria! Are you passionate about helping using technology for good in developing countries? Come and participate in the Code2Earn Hackathon and create solutions that will help reduce unemployment and drive up income levels. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to develop apps to tackle issues in health, education, and the environment. Showcase your creativity and skills and compete for the chance to win seed funding for your project from Microsoft and The Future Project.

Engineers, designers, product managers, businesspeople, marketers, investors, etc. in the Bay ASrea! Frustrated with the state of the political climate? Want to make a difference? Sign up today to participate in the non-partisan Reboot Democracy Hackathon. Participate and use technology to help build tools that can help transform the political system to be truly representative of — and responsive to — all citizens.

Hackers in Missouri! Want to hack something good for the community? Sign up and participate in Hack 4 Good Springfield: #HackPoverty. Your challenge is to design and prototype a radically good mobile app that: 1.Connects the homeless to vital resources, and 2.Connects volunteers in real-time to meet the needs of the homeless community.

Musicians and sound engineers! Come along to the monthly Music Hackathon NYC. This month's topic is Music With A Purpose. It's a free, non-competitive monthly all-day event for participants to create new music-related projects from scratch, develop them over a period of ~8 hours, then perform or present them in a concert format at 8pm.

Disabled Western Australians! Want to make a difference and contribute some dangerously useful solutions for the disabled? Yellow Submarine Down Under — a new group that promotes disability rights, pride and voice — invites you to sign-up for the Dangerous Ideas in Disability event. You'll get the chance to collaborate with other dangerous thinking individuals in the Crip Hackathon, where you'll create innovative solutions challenges faced by the disabled.

Kids in South LA! Want to learn to code? Want to help improve your church, school, block, park, or any part of your community? Sign up for the South LA Hustle N’ Code Hackathon! You don't have to know how to code! There'll be plenty of people who get help get you started. You'll get the chance to come up with some great web or mobile app ideas to solve community problems. You'll be part of a team and compete for awesome prizes like laptops, Beat headphones and lots more!

Students in and around Toronto! SAGE Canada invites you to participate in the Innovation Hack 2016. You will collaborate with like-minded people with an entrepreneurial spirit to create innovative solutions to pressing social challenges? You'll work in a team and apply out-of-the-box thinking to develop innovative, maybe unconventional solutions to real world problems.

Want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in Los Angeles! Collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: »Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. »Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they; go to, are at, and come home from work. »Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. »Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace.